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No set rules for chapters. Decades ago a lot of non-fiction had 13 chapters because there were 13 weeks in a typical Sunday School quarter. That is no longer an issue with adult classes being less structured around a curriculum requiring that set up. You could have a 42,000 word book with one chapter. I don’t recommend it, but you could. Wine emulator. Chapters need to be as long or short as they need to be. ![]() Use common senseas if you were the consumer. One page (300 words) is too short. 25 pages (7,500 words) is probably too long. A long blog post is 900 words. (the above post is 765 words). But in a book that would only be 3 pages long. In other words: It depends. Hi Steve, Over time and Google, passing through publishing house guidelines, I found some that differ, but for the most part, the word count is the same. With a cover letter/proposal if the word count is not up front, the proposal (to me) is a, um, waste of time. Not being in your world, I believe genre, title of WIP and approximated word count must be in the first lines. I’ve scraped away unnecessary scenes, killed off darlings, reworded, and slashed those 43 words to kick from the manuscript (that was some article I read). After that, I did the process again. A beta group pointed out great scene here but does it push the plot forward. Some of those ’43 words belong, otherwise the sentence/paragraph become choppy and confusing, but many can be swept away. Some–a lot included weeping on my part. ![]() However, I managed to slash a manuscript from 144,000 words to ~91,000 words. I’d be willing to bet I can rid more. Why would a publisher want to know the word count? Furious gold pack 6 crack. To know what he/she is getting into, what the genre accepts, and if it is saleable. Getting into a promising project means time and money, and without a return on the heavy investment by the agent, writer, and publishing house, it’s a lost cause. The writer may or may not be able to land the agent first time, or second. Name recognition is a big one in the world of readers. If I didn’t like so-and-so’s book #1, I may not buy #2. I agree, a slim book on ‘sale’ for 20 bucks is not a buy, it’s highway robbery, and what agent wants to be associated with that moniker? Words count (pun intended). I’ve read some doozies with high word counts, verbs over the top, reckless use of overwriting to make the count. That is filler/fluff.
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